Climax (narrative)

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File:Vincenzo Camuccini - La morte di Cesare.jpg
Death of Caesar, the climax of Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar

The climax (from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax) 'staircase, ladder') or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given.[1][2] The climax of a story is a literary element.[3]

Anticlimax

An anticlimax is a disappointing event after events that were full of excitement.[4]

See also

References

  1. Herrick, Robert; Damon, Lindsay Todd (1902). Composition and Rhetoric for Schools. Original from Harvard University: Scott, Foresman and Co. p. 382.
  2. Fletcher, Jefferson Butler; Carpenter, George Rice (1893). Introduction to Theme-writing. Original from Harvard University: Allyn & Bacon. p. 84.
  3. "Climax". Literary Terms. 26 March 2015.
  4. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/anticlimax